James Cameron Reveals His Plot Idea For A Fourth AVATAR Movie

Despite recent reports that Cameron is only working on two sequels to his science fiction epic Avatar right now, the director has revealed his idea for a fourth installment in the series which would serve as a prequel to the original movie.

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By Paul Romano - 9/8/2012

Recently, producer Jon Landau confirmed that director James Cameron is only currently working on two sequels to his box office smash Avatar, and that a fourth film won't be filmed around the same time as the other sequels. That's not to say that a fourth Avatar movie won't happen, however. While promoting the new collector's edition of Titanic, Cameron was asked by MTV News for an update on the sequels, which he is currently writing. He then reveals that he has an idea for a fourth movie in the series, which would be a prequel exploring "the early expeditions of Pandora". For Cameron's comments on Avatar 2 and 3 (which will be shot back-to-back), click the link below.

"I have an idea for a fourth," Cameron told the site. "I haven't really put pen to paper on it, but basically it goes back to the early expeditions of Pandora, and kind of what went wrong with the humans and the Na'vi and what that was like to be an explorer and living in that world."

"Because when we drop in, even in the first film in 'Avatar 1,' as it will be known in the future, we're dropping into a process that's 35 years in to a whole colonization," Cameron stated. "That will complete an arc and if that leads into more, we'll start, not imitating 'Star Wars,' but it's a logical thing to do because we'll have completed the thematic arc by the end of three. The only thing left to do is go back to see what it was like on those first expeditions and create some new characters that then become legacy characters in later films. It's a plan."

Do you want to see more than two Avatar sequels from James Cameron? The first sequel will be released in theaters 2015 or later.

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I was more than a little bored by Avatar. The 3D is what sold it for me. That said, I'll still watch the sequel and maybe the 3rd if part 2 holds up. Meh to the prequel, though. Maybe I'll be a fan once they're done.

Avatar looked amazing, with an interesting setup, but absolutely predictable, cookie cutter plot and dull acting. (Like every other Jim Cameron movie.) No wonder it made so much money. But Cameron better get cracking if he wants to cash in before the American movie-going sheep lose interest.

Count me in. While the 1st had it's flaws, that's pretty much with any 1st movie. It's never going to be your best one. Look at all of the 1st films of any franchise and most of the time, they aren't as good as their sequels (not saying some sequels aren't absolutely horrible *cough* Spider-man 3). I don't really hold the 1st one up to such a high standard.

However, with sequels, I definitely do since they should know better and have fixed those flaws and evolve the story even more. With Sully now being a Na'vi, I hope it isn't as "Pocahantasy" as the 1st one. But seeing a prequel to how this all started I'm definitely stoked for. I hope Cameron gets around to doing it.

I really like this movie. It wasn't a masterpiece (District 9 stole 2009 for me), but I would be up for a sequel. While it's great that James Cameron is planning ahead, he shouldn't be talking about it to the public without concrete work being completed.

Say what you want but the man who gave us some of the most significant sci-fi & action movies of all time is far from a hack. Regardless if you hated Avatar (hate which seems to spew mostly from fanboys) the man changed the way we watch movies. And it's not the first time he's done it. Respect, whether you like it or not, is due.

It's really cool and all to hate on Avatar. I love how everyone these days is some wanna-be pretentious film [foo foo]. Avatar was a fun movie and visually amazing.

Pocahontas is one of my favorites as well. I love when John Smith has his conscious transferred into his dead brothers native american avatar that the pilgrim scientists made. Then the pilgrims use him to learn about the native americans so they can harvest a rare expensive metal and send it back to England.

Those dirty pilgrims then chopped down the gargantuan tree the natives lived in that was above the rare metal. John smith loves the natives too much so he bonds mentally a giant bird to become a legendary figure they revere to lead them in an effort to defend the spirit of North America from being destroyed. The spirit of North America also stores all the memories of the natives and they can access it at any time by plugging in their organic usb cable.

In the final desperate moment of the battle the spirit of North America sends all the animals to help beat those evil pilgrims back. The Natives and John Smith force the bad pilgrims to go back to England and then John Smith has his conscious permanently transferred into his dead brothers native avatar via the spirit of North America.

Yep, Pocahontas was a wild movie. I'm glad I'm not a giant retarded [frick]ing idiot that simplifies the plot so I can shoe horn it into a similar plot and then hate on the movie because I'm hip.